Strange

Famous quotes containing the word strange:

    A strange age of the world this, when empires, kingdoms, and republics come a-begging to a private man’s door, and utter their complaints at his elbow! I cannot take up a newspaper but I find that some wretched government or other, hard pushed and on its last legs, is interceding with me, the reader, to vote for it.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    Ah, did you once see Shelley plain,
    And did he stop and speak to you,
    And did you speak to him again?
    How strange it seems and new!
    Robert Browning (1812–1889)

    My love is of a birth as rare
    As ‘tis for object strange and high:
    It was begotten by Despair
    Upon Impossibility.
    Andrew Marvell (1621–1678)